Stream : (noun)
1: a natural body of running water flowing on or under the
earth [syn: watercourse]
2: dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive
events or ideas; "two streams of development run through
American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of
thought"; "the current of history" [syn: flow, current]
3: a steady flow (usually from natural causes); "the raft
floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of
air" [syn: current]
4: the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
[syn: flow]
5: something that resembles a flowing stream in moving
continuously; "a stream of people emptied from the
terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow
of visitors" [syn: flow]
(verb)
1: to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind; "their
manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind"
2: exude profusely; "She was streaming with sweat"; "His nose
streamed blood"
3: move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the
theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" [syn: pour,
swarm, teem, pullulate]
4: rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring
outside!" [syn: pour, pelt, rain cats and dogs, rain
buckets]
5: flow freely and abundantly; "Tears streamed down her face"
[syn: well out]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Stream : \Stream\, v. t.
To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to
pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.
It may so please that she at length will stream Some
dew of grace into my withered heart. --Spenser.
2. To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
The herald's mantle is streamed with gold. --Bacon.
3. To unfurl. --Shak.
To stream the buoy. (Naut.) See under Buoy.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Stream : \Stream\ (str[=e]m), n. [AS. stre['a]m; akin to OFries.
str[=a]m, OS. str[=o]m, D. stroom, G. strom, OHG. stroum,
str[=u]m, Dan. & Sw. str["o]m, Icel. straumr, Ir. sroth,
Lith. srove, Russ. struia, Gr. "ry`sis a flowing, "rei^n to
flow, Skr. sru. [root]174. Cf. Catarrh, Diarrhea,
Rheum, Rhythm.]
1. A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing
continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as
a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or
fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as,
many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam
came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead
from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.
2. A beam or ray of light. ``Sun streams.'' --Chaucer.
3. Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of
parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand. ``The
stream of beneficence.'' --Atterbury. ``The stream of
emigration.'' --Macaulay.
4. A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.
``The very stream of his life.'' --Shak.
5. Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving
causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.
Gulf stream. See under Gulf.
Stream anchor, Stream cable. (Naut.) See under Anchor,
and Cable.
Stream ice, blocks of ice floating in a mass together in
some definite direction.
Stream tin, particles or masses of tin ore found in
alluvial ground; -- so called because a stream of water is
the principal agent used in separating the ore from the
sand and gravel.
Stream works (Cornish Mining), a place where an alluvial
deposit of tin ore is worked. --Ure.
To float with the stream, figuratively, to drift with the
current of opinion, custom, etc., so as not to oppose or
check it.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Stream : \Stream\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Streamed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Streaming.]
1. To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a
current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as,
tears streamed from her eyes.
Beneath those banks where rivers stream. --Milton.
2. To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.
A thousand suns will stream on thee. --Tennyson.
3. To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.
4. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in
the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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STREAM. A current of water. The right to a water course is not a right in
the fluid itself so much as a right in the current of the stream. 2 Bouv.
Inst. n. 1612. See River; Water Course.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Stream :
["STREAM: A Scheme Language for Formally Describing Digital
Circuits", C.D. Kloos in PARLE: Parallel Architectures and
Languages Europe, LNCS 259, Springer 1987].
(1995-01-30)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Stream :
1. An abstraction referring to any flow of
data from a source (or sender, producer) to a single sink (or
receiver, consumer). A stream usually flows through a channel
of some kind, as opposed to packets which may be addressed
and routed independently, possibly to multiple recipients.
Streams usually require some mechanism for establishing a
channel or a "{connection" between the sender and receiver.
2. In the C language's buffered input/ouput
library functions, a stream is associated with a file or
device which has been opened using fopen. Characters may be
read from (written to) a stream without knowing their actual
source (destination) and buffering is provided transparently
by the library routines.
3. Confusingly, Sun have called their
device_driver_mechanism_"{STREAMS">modular device driver mechanism "{STREAMS".
4. In IBM's AIX operating system, a
stream is a full-duplex processing and data transfer path
between a driver in kernel space and a process in user
space.
[IBM AIX 3.2 Communication Programming Concepts,
SC23-2206-03].
5. streaming.
6. lazy list.
(1996-11-06)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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